RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FOOD SITUATION DESPERATE. DEATH AND DISEASE RAMPANT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 14, 0.5 p.m. Paris, June 9. There are many deaths in the prison at Riga. The food situation is desperate, 220,000 people being in need, whilst thousands have died of starvation and disease, spotted fever, smallpox, influenza and pneumonia being rampant. The Bolsheviks have confiscated fortunes and all bank funds— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. KOLCHAK CONCEDES ALLIES' DEMANDS. Received June 14, 5.5 p.m. New York, June fi. The New York Sun's Paris correspondent states that reliable reports which are reaching French official circles say that Admiral Kolchak is willing to concede the Allies' demands as a preliminary to recognition of the Omsk Government. Admiral Kolchak will recognise the independence of Finland and Poland. He proposes an alliance with Mannerheim for the dual occupation of Petrograd.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

JOINING THE HUNGARIANS. Received June 15, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, June 14. Russian Bolsheviks are reported to have crossed the Galieian border with the object of joining (ho Hungarian Bolsheviks.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. KRONSTADT BOMBARDED. Stockholm, June 13. Swedish newspapers report that the British squadron bombarded Kronstadt, which the Bolsheviks are preparing to evacuate.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A GERMAN CAPTURE. Received June 15, 11.5 p.m. London, June 14. The Lettish information bureau at Stockholm reports that the Germans have captured Wenden.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.